i opened a teaching on boddhicitta very early in the morning , not expecting much and immediatly found myself repeating the bodhisattva vow, without real resistance but a joyful knowing,it really felt natural and right,as if its the missing link,
to bring the many hours spent thinking and reading or learning by listening to the ideas of others, into practice,into ordinary everyday life.
what a gift , one that i wholeheartedly wish to everyone,and thank you all for being here and helping each other on this lumious path.
sometimes the effort our brain makes to understand is itself in the way of getting the message you cant express in words
Nov 23, 2023·edited Nov 23, 2023Liked by Robert Aho
Hello, Robert.
You speak in this post about the impossibility of human terminology to define Dharmakaya and the dangers of trying to turn It into an object. You speak about It being an "extremely bright, fully aware Light". So it is the "bright light" condition of it that puzzles me. All my spiritual practice has been about formless, Impersonal, Transcendental Awareness. That´s where meditation and intuition took me. No bright or dark quality in It, but the Source of all. So when you speak about you becoming Dharmakaya in your NDE, I have a hard time understanding how It can have an objective quality, which is "light" which is "brightness". Who sees those qualities?
This is such an important question for me, so I would greatly appreciate an answer.
If I could answer that question, I would have answered it already. What I'm really saying is that we need to each discover our real condition, beyond all obstacles, for ourselves. When we look at mind, what do we discover? When we examine who is really observing, we must consider that we ourselves are not nothing, or we would not be able to observe. We are also not everything, or we would not have a unique point of view in relative reality. We find, eventually, and through much examination, the Nature of Mind. Usually this requires the assistance of a Dzogchen master. What we need to do before that is prepare ourselves for such realization, or it will quickly pass, without enough stability to remain undistracted by mind. The reason I say this is because we continually catch glimpses of who we really are, in dreams, in death, in moments of our daily life, and we have no way to remain in that realization. We need to prepare by opening our heart and mind, utilizing meditation as a way to make this more stable. We are Dharmakaya. Only the confused mind needs this distinction between what we are as sentient beings and our natural condition.
today is a special day,
i opened a teaching on boddhicitta very early in the morning , not expecting much and immediatly found myself repeating the bodhisattva vow, without real resistance but a joyful knowing,it really felt natural and right,as if its the missing link,
to bring the many hours spent thinking and reading or learning by listening to the ideas of others, into practice,into ordinary everyday life.
what a gift , one that i wholeheartedly wish to everyone,and thank you all for being here and helping each other on this lumious path.
sometimes the effort our brain makes to understand is itself in the way of getting the message you cant express in words
mögen alle wesen erwachen
christof
Very good 💖🙏
Hello, Robert.
You speak in this post about the impossibility of human terminology to define Dharmakaya and the dangers of trying to turn It into an object. You speak about It being an "extremely bright, fully aware Light". So it is the "bright light" condition of it that puzzles me. All my spiritual practice has been about formless, Impersonal, Transcendental Awareness. That´s where meditation and intuition took me. No bright or dark quality in It, but the Source of all. So when you speak about you becoming Dharmakaya in your NDE, I have a hard time understanding how It can have an objective quality, which is "light" which is "brightness". Who sees those qualities?
This is such an important question for me, so I would greatly appreciate an answer.
If I could answer that question, I would have answered it already. What I'm really saying is that we need to each discover our real condition, beyond all obstacles, for ourselves. When we look at mind, what do we discover? When we examine who is really observing, we must consider that we ourselves are not nothing, or we would not be able to observe. We are also not everything, or we would not have a unique point of view in relative reality. We find, eventually, and through much examination, the Nature of Mind. Usually this requires the assistance of a Dzogchen master. What we need to do before that is prepare ourselves for such realization, or it will quickly pass, without enough stability to remain undistracted by mind. The reason I say this is because we continually catch glimpses of who we really are, in dreams, in death, in moments of our daily life, and we have no way to remain in that realization. We need to prepare by opening our heart and mind, utilizing meditation as a way to make this more stable. We are Dharmakaya. Only the confused mind needs this distinction between what we are as sentient beings and our natural condition.
Thank you very much, Robert. Although I still have that doubt, you stimulate my desire to fully focus in our True Nature in a tremendous manner.